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Stabbing suspect to get treatment

GREENSBURG — Westmoreland County Judge Christopher Feliciani has reversed himself and now says a teenager awaiting trial in a high school stabbing rampage will receive mental health treatment in a juvenile detention center.

Feliciani and the boy’s defense attorney couldn’t find a secure mental hospital willing to treat the Alex Hribal, 16, either because he’s a minor or because of security risks involved.

Hribal of Murrysville is charged with stabbing 20 students and a guard April 9 at Franklin Regional High School. They all survived.

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